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Book 2 , Chapters 7-9 Summary

Mama Chia leads Dan to the beach, where she explains that she has been working with his Basic Self (subconscious) to speed his healing. She draws in the sand Leonardo da Vinci's figure of a man in a circle and goes into a deep trance. Dan dozes and sees himself in the circle, rolling into a night forest, where three glowing lights appear. The belly glows red, the head white, and overhead swirl iridescent colors. Fleeing a thunderstorm, the Basic Self becomes a child and the Conscious Self a robot. Dan's consciousness merges with the child's and experiences life through its senses, feeling good and bad but having no sense of beauty or faith. He next enters the robot and sees sterility and grayness. Dan awakens terrified, and Mama Chia helps him see that the bad dream is the...